Liability Risk and Insurance
US$56mn ‘fen-phen’ award
A Texas jury has awarded US$56.5mn (of which US$45mn punitive) to Gloria Lopez for heart damage she claimed was caused by
use of the diet drug ‘fen-phen’. American Home Products will appeal. Most claims are covered by a 50,000-person class action
settlement but an earlier individual award of US$23.2mn was cut, in the course of negotiations, by 90%.